Infection control
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| show | The patient may now have a systemic infection.
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| The nurse is preparing to insert a urinary catheter. To perform this procedure, the nurse will use: | show 🗑
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| The nurse is working in a busy emergency room. The nurse sees that the patient has a gunshot wound to the chest and is concerned there may be splattering of infectious materials. The nurse applies goggles, a mask, and a gown. What is this called? | show 🗑
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| A nurse assists a patient with a Foley catheter to ambulate down the hall. The nurse holds the catheter bag below the level of the patient s bladder. What link in the chain of infection is the nurse breaking by doing so? | show 🗑
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| The nurse manager is reviewing the use of standard precautions with the staff. Which of the following should be included in the review? | show 🗑
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| show | A sterile barrier that has been permeated by moisture must be considered contaminated. A sterile object or field out of the range of vision or an object held below a person’s waist is considered contaminated.
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| A small group of nursing students is giving a teaching presentation on the principles of surgical asepsis. Which of the following standards are appropriate to include in the presentation? | show 🗑
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| A nurse is teaching infection control to a group of daycare workers. Which of the following should the nurse include in the instruction? | show 🗑
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| show | The patient who is receiving immunosuppressive medication
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| 92-year-old female complains of frequent nonproductive cough. States has been taking PO steroids as prescribed. Denies having received pneumonia vaccine. Based on this information, what factors place this patient at risk for being a susceptible host? | show 🗑
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| The nurse is preparing an in-service on medical asepsis. Which of the following should be included in the presentation? | show 🗑
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| show | Before applying gloves to insert an IV. After moving a patient up in bed. Before assessing a patient's vital signs.
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| show | The force of the water, The method used to turn off the faucet.
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| Why are the hands rinsed with the fingertips held lower than the wrist? | show 🗑
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| What is the best nursing practice to reduce the potential transmission of microorganisms within the health care setting? | show 🗑
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| Under which circumstance(s) should hand washing be repeated? | show 🗑
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| When is it acceptable to use antiseptic hand rub rather than soap and water? | show 🗑
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| The nurse is observing the NAP perform hand hygiene. Which of the following, if performed by the NAP, requires intervention by the nurse? | show 🗑
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| show | Use hand lotion from an individual use container. Be sure to rinse and dry hands thoroughly. Avoid excessive amounts of soap or antiseptic.
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| show | Opening the outermost flap. Pouring a sterile solution.
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| The nurse is preparing a sterile field. Which of the following would be considered contamination of the field? | show 🗑
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| show | Place the drape so the top half of the drape is over the top half of the work surface.
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| show | The nurse asks the patient if he has ambulated in the hall today.
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| One evaluation measure of creating and maintaining a sterile field involves monitoring the patient for developing signs and symptoms of localized or systemic infection. Which of the following is cause for concern? | show 🗑
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| show | Discard the needle and replace with a new one before administration.
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| show | The nurse opens another sterile gauze dressing and adds it to the sterile field, but does not use the first one.
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| The nurse is applying sterile gloves. Which series of steps would require correction? | show 🗑
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| show | You grasp the outside of one cuff with the other gloved hand and pull the glove off, turning it inside out, and place it in gloved hand. Peel glove off inside out and over the previously removed glove.
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| The nursing instructor is asking the nursing students to share their knowledge regarding sterile gloving. Which statement, if made by a student, would require correction? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following are symptoms of latex allergy? | show 🗑
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| show | History of multiple surgeries as a child. Occupation.
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